Incident Response Contracts in Glasgow

Incident Response
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Incident Response skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Incident Response over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 75 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Incident Response 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.50% 0.80% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.87% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile - £275 -
25th Percentile £205 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% - -
75th Percentile £345 £500 -
90th Percentile £423 - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Incident Response falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Incident Response
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Incident Response as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Incident Response in Glasgow

Incident Response
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Incident Response in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Incident Response in Glasgow

Incident Response
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Incident Response in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Incident Response in Glasgow

Incident Response
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) BCP
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (50.00%) OSINT
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Social Media Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow